Dear Friends, The concerto I metioned some momths ago has been recorded by me and the CD is available to anyone in this group free of charge. If you would ...
I did it! I played my first professional concert on Buffet #5740. "Glamourous Night - the Music of Ivor Novello" at the newly renamed "Novello Theatre" in...
Is the french bassoon SEASONAL? I would like to whip up some new discussion. Does anyone on the list have experience of Mahillon bassoons? Someone recently...
dear simon and friends, by seasonal, i expect you mean times of the year (rather than its popularity coming and going.) the only thing i notice is that in...
Hello all, It is intriguing to me, the idea of national styles of French bassoon playing. We know something of the English style because it is within living...
By seasonal, I was refering to the recent silence on this list: maybe everyone is too busy playing! Here in Ireland, there are no great variations in ...
Hello all, I, too, know little of the Mahillon basson, but my friend Larry Ibisch in New York--a veritable curator of old French bassons, including Raymond...
I own what I believe is a newer Mahillon.They stopped making instruments in 1935. My knowledge about them is rather thin. I obtained a fingering chart from...
Thanks to all for your comments: the story is gradually accumulating. I would love to see Larry's fingering chart; also the early one listed in the IDRS...
For us novices with basson francais, what is a "Creation" key? Thanks, Charlie ... From: why_daikoku To: frenchbassoon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October...
Sorry, the Creation key is an extra for the left thumb, and functions as a trill-key for high f1-g1, f2-g2, and also e2-g2, as found in Haydn's "Creation",...
Hi all, This may seem like an odd question, but does anyone else find, especially when playing the French Bassoon for extended periods, that the post for the...
hi john, i have had this problem, but not to this extent. it has helped to get the angle of the instrument right. i adjust the position of the crook which then...
Hola, 1. The hand position on both German and French are certainly not ergonomic. You must know the round adhesive-backed felts you put on chair legs so as not...
My thanks to Larry Ibisch for so kindly forwarding a copy of his old Mahillon fingering chart: I hope to have my complete collection of fingerings for Mahillon...
The key for the left thumb on that old Buffet opens the F# key, not the E-flat key. I have a high pitch Buffet with exactly the same keywork at the one...
Interesting to read about your extension to the low C# key Simon. Coincidentally, I have just had something similar fitted to my Buffet. Having heard about the...
Of course what some call the f# key others call the high Eb key because it also produces that note, as well as various trills. John. ... the E-flat key. I...
Aha. You're right. Simon mentioned the "e-flat trill key," which I had associated with the key between the second and third holes. I wasn't thinking that...
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